CORPORATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POLICY AND CERTIFICATIONS


For Midac spa, just as for other companies that make lead batteries, the 1990s were the decade of globalization.
Working in an increasingly competitive economic context, Midac spa had to keep up with the relentless rhythm of technological progress, rapidly changing markets, and proliferating legal and regulatory measures.
Added to this situation, shared by European companies, was competition from countries with low labor costs, while on the European market the challenge continued to be even tougher than before.

Faced with this scenario, Midac spa decided to respond vigorously to outside demands and pressures, turning these difficulties and worries into opportunities for growth, greater efficiency, and improved processes.
Midac spa tackles these changes by paying particular attention to the quality of its production system and its services, to environmental respect, to its ability to protect worker health and safety, committed to working according to socially responsible criteria that respect human rights.

The organizational program that Midac spa created to respond to the growing complexity of the industrialized world was naturally based on existing regulatory models.
For this reason, in 1997, just seven years after the first battery left its factories, Midac spa obtained ISO9002 certification (for its quality system), which in 1999 became ISO9001 (with the addition of design).

In 2000, assimilation of quality concepts was integrated with implementation of Lean Production techniques and process mapping (Value Stream Map), which gave the company indispensable support for its achievement of ISO9001:2000 (Vision 2000) certification in 2002, far in advance of internationally set deadlines.
In 2003, Midac spa achieved three highly prestigious goals: certification of its management system according to environmental standards (ISO14001), certification according to occupational health and safety standards (OHSAS18001), and certification according to car manufacturer standards (ISO/TS16949).

The next milestone, aimed at providing partners with evidence of how this company respects all the requirements and needs in a business relationship between companies, is represented by the corporate social responsibility management system conforming to the SA8000:2001 standards.
Midac attained certification at the end of 2004.

Midac spa offers its partners an integrated management system founded on mutual trust, based on a wide-ranging vision that involves all its employees and all its suppliers.
For an integrated quality, environmental, safety, and ethics system, demonstrating and emphasizing the driving concept behind Midac spa’s success, i.e., continuous improvement, becomes automatic. As company policy Midac has established fundamental objectives and organisational cornerstones within its corporate management system.

CORPORATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POLICY